Alison Taysum

Alison Taysum

University of Leicester

Biography

Alison Taysum is Postgraduate Tutor for the EdD, and leads the EdD and MSc Educational Leadership (School Business Management) at the University of Leicester, UK.

Alison’s research interests focus on building international research collaborations and partnerships with a focus on understanding and improving effective educational leadership, and learning to underpin evidence informed innovations to enable young people to be drivers of social change. Alison’s research with international partners and collaborators reveals research partnerships between Higher Education Institutions and Schools and Colleges are instrumental to optimising participation, and raising student achievement, attainment and striving for equity. Higher Education Institutions and School/College research partnerships, often facilitated through Post-Graduate Research degrees, also enable communities to think about, and talk about achieving full economic, cultural and political participation in multicultural, intergenerational societies with evolving gender relationships.